Tram Town
Wednesday, February 04, 2004
| Category: Pitchers Stanley speaks highly of Lost in Translation. Maybe I'll go to the pictures twice this year. But what are the subbies at the SMH saw thinking by translating "6ft-plus" to "1.8 metres-plus"? The Metric Conversion Board was dissolved in 1981 and so there is no-one to bring charges against them for public use of non-metric measures. But that's not the point anyway. Kiku Day was using a well established idiom, changing it changes the sense of her writing (idiotic though the content may be). |
